HI Paulo, how have you been? Thank you for your help. I will request the record based on your information below. I understand about the other couple having common names. I am also researching de Freitas, and as you know on Madeira that is like looking for a needle in a haystack! There are so many Freitas with same given names it really makes you work hard! Thereward is always worth it! Denise In a message dated 1/10/2006 1:36:08 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, darwin@spamcop.net writes: Here is the marriage record you should request: Francisco Gonçalves + Tomásia Joaquina 1827 São Martinho book 253 page 186 v.º The parents of Julia, however, have very common names, and return a list of various possible couples on that year range. Hope this helps, Paulo On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:49:41 -0000, <Denise1270@aol.com> wrote: > Hi again, > Looking for info on Francisco Goncalves de Freitas of Pico do Fucho, Sao > Martinho, Funchal. He was married to Thomasia Joaquina also of Pico do > Funcho. > Their son was Manuel Goncalves de Freitas that was married to Julia > Candida > da Silva about 1856. Julia's parents were Manuel da Silva and Maria > Joaquina. > Any help is appreciated. > Denise de Freitas d'Antona > > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > -- " Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas regumque turres." -- Horacio ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx

Hi Denise, It's cold here, right now, maybe 10 or 9 Celsius here where I live, which is awful cold for Madeira, but we can always warm up when we see the temperatures at the maniland. :) About the Freitas: Though there are millions of Freitas in Madeira (God knows why, and there's a similar case with the Gouveias) there is a well structured Freitas family living in S. Martinho which is also subject of my research. It's the line of Maria Augusta, which in 1852 married Francisco Alves, fisherman in Câmara de Lobos, parents of the misterious José Alves "seaman" (postumous father of my great grand father) which married Silvina Constança Henriques, the well educated girl from the wealthy Gomes Henriques family, known at the time as the "meninos de Belém", the silverspoon children of Belém, a place in Câmara de Lobos. God would know how that marriage came to be. I've a picture of that lady, dressed in Belle Epoque black clothes, plumes hat, long black gloves and all, with quite a noble pose, and it is difficult to imagine that she was the widow of a seaman or fisherman - let alone one from Câmara de Lobos! Certainly a serious case of love. ;) Anyway, the Freitas. Maria Augusta, daughter of Silvéria Rosa (Tº Gonçalves Rocha) and Victorino de Freitas, son of Vicência da Rosa (Tº Mouras do Porto da Cruz) and José de Freitas, son of Maria Gomes and António de Freitas, son of Mª da Candelária and Pedro de Freitas, son of Martim de Freitas, who married Helena da Costa in S. Martinho, 1672 (I've yet to check this marriage). Possibly the same Freitas family of your branch...? Paulo On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:54:53 -0000, <Denise1270@aol.com> wrote: > HI Paulo, how have you been? Thank you for your help. I will request > the > record based on your information below. > I understand about the other couple having common names. I am also > researching de Freitas, and as you know on Madeira that is like looking > for a needle > in a haystack! There are so many Freitas with same given names it > really > makes you work hard! Thereward is always worth it! > > Denise > In a message dated 1/10/2006 1:36:08 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > darwin@spamcop.net writes: > > Here is the marriage record you should request: > > Francisco Gonçalves + Tomásia Joaquina > 1827 > São Martinho > book 253 > page 186 v.º > > The parents of Julia, however, have very common names, and return a list > of various possible couples on that year range. > > Hope this helps, > > Paulo > > On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:49:41 -0000, <Denise1270@aol.com> wrote: > >> Hi again, >> Looking for info on Francisco Goncalves de Freitas of Pico do Fucho, >> Sao >> Martinho, Funchal. He was married to Thomasia Joaquina also of Pico do >> Funcho. >> Their son was Manuel Goncalves de Freitas that was married to Julia >> Candida >> da Silva about 1856. Julia's parents were Manuel da Silva and Maria >> Joaquina. >> Any help is appreciated. >> Denise de Freitas d'Antona >> >> >> ============================== >> Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >> last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >> http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >> > > > -- " Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas regumque turres." -- Horacio